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TYPHUS FEVER IN THE HORSE. 
Cross-examined.—He might have a little bit of a corn now and 
again ; he often pared the corn out of his off fore foot; it did not 
signify at all; thought him nothing the worse for it; his foot 
would crack a little in droughty weather; always pared out the 
cracks at the time of shoeing; shod him for the fair about a month 
before it. Swears he had perfect, sound, good, feet. ( Great 
laughter'). 
Mr. Clindining examined.—Was in the fair of Belturbet; was 
in price of the horse ; did not see him lame ; thought him a very 
fashionable horse, and a very good one. 
Cross-examined.—Is a gentleman; don’t live by his wits; 
don’t think the horse could be lame without his knowing it; did 
not see the hole in his side, nor feel it. 
Verdict for the defendant.— The case was appealed. 
Foreign Department. 
Typhus Fever in the Horse. 
By M. Denis LAMBERT, Veterinary Surgeon at Lahaye-Descartes t 
I HAD practised veterinary medicine for ten years at Lahaye- 
Descartes, when, in 1844, there appeared a fearful enzootic. Up 
to that time I had never met with such a disease; and this, while 
it attacked the horses of the country, prevailed endemically among 
the men. 
I believe such an affection to be any thing but common in vete¬ 
rinary medicine. Few authors have treated of it. 
Like many other diseases difficult to cure, and which assume 
enzootic or epizootic forms, it has received many names significant 
of its character, or its seat, or of some symptoms it has presented 
in its course. What we now call typhus fever anciently went by 
the denominations of adynamic fever, atomic fever, putrid, ma¬ 
lignant, mucous fever, 8$c. 
Symptoms. —If the owner of the horse be interrogated as to the 
symptoms that have been observed prior to the calling-in of the 
veterinarian, he says that for some days past the animal has lagged 
at his work; that motion has seemed irksome and vacillating; 
that in the stable he has hung his head and shaken it at times; 
that he is continually gaping, and frequently grinds his teeth ; 
that his heavy head is from time to time carried round to his 
flank; his bowels are continually rumbling; and though he even 
